My first year University course advisor suggested I do the brand new Pascal programming course in ‘79. They enrolled a couple of hundred students but only had

My first year University course advisor suggested I do the brand new Pascal programming course in ‘79. They enrolled a couple of hundred students but only had 5 card punch machines and one reader. One month of 24/7 programming by trial and error, which the lecturers wanted to avoid, only two machines survived, one had a broken ‘b’ key. This set me up for future success as future 1980’s employers always got the young bloke to run the computer.